Are there any libraries in .Net to help compare and find differences between two json objects? I've found some solutions available for JavaScript, but nothing interesting for C#. The point of my question is to create json with changes marked in some way, based on the comparison. So that the user could see where the changes are.
using Microsoft.XmlDiffPatch;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
Convert each json to xml and use MS XmlDiff libary. Available on nuget. Differences are given in another xml doc which here I write to the console. This is suitable for unit testing for example.
public bool CompareJson(string expected, string actual)
{
var expectedDoc = JsonConvert.DeserializeXmlNode(expected, "root");
var actualDoc = JsonConvert.DeserializeXmlNode(actual, "root");
var diff = new XmlDiff(XmlDiffOptions.IgnoreWhitespace |
XmlDiffOptions.IgnoreChildOrder);
using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
using (var writer = new XmlTextWriter(ms, Encoding.UTF8))
{
var result = diff.Compare(expectedDoc, actualDoc, writer);
if (!result)
{
ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
Console.WriteLine(new StreamReader(ms).ReadToEnd());
}
return result;
}
}
I have used different JSON objects than those in your example but it will apply to your case correctly.
private static string GetJsonDiff(string action, string existing, string modified, string objectType)
{
// convert JSON to object
JObject xptJson = JObject.Parse(modified);
JObject actualJson = JObject.Parse(existing);
// read properties
var xptProps = xptJson.Properties().ToList();
var actProps = actualJson.Properties().ToList();
// find differing properties
var auditLog = (from existingProp in actProps
from modifiedProp in xptProps
where modifiedProp.Path.Equals(existingProp.Path)
where !modifiedProp.Value.ToString().Equals(existingProp.Value.ToString())
select new AuditLog
{
Field = existingProp.Path,
OldValue = existingProp.Value.ToString(),
NewValue = modifiedProp.Value.ToString(),
Action = action, ActionBy = GetUserName(),
ActionDate = DateTime.UtcNow.ToLongDateString(),
ObjectType = objectType
}).ToList();
return JsonConvert.SerializeObject(auditLog);
}
I think your best bet is to use JSON.NET to create two JSON objects, then recursively loop through the tree, comparing each node to see if it exists and is equal while you go.
I think the best way to go here is to create objects using newtonsoft json.http://www.nuget.org/packages/newtonsoft.json/
So, you will have two objects of the same type, which you can easily compare and mark the differences.
private IEnumerable<JProperty> JSONCompare(string expectedJSON, string actualJSON)
{
// convert JSON to object
JObject xptJson = JObject.Parse(expectedJSON);
JObject actualJson = JObject.Parse(actualJSON);
// read properties
var xptProps = xptJson.Properties().ToList();
var actProps = actualJson.Properties().ToList();
// find missing properties
var missingProps = xptProps.Where(expected => actProps.Where(actual => actual.Name == expected.Name).Count() == 0);
return missingProps;
}
Related
I am parsing an XML and able to extract data into List of object using below code. But the front end uses an type of T binding data object which is currently working. Once I return ienumerable it is not working. How can I convert this enumerable to type of T?
var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Feed));
var xmlfeed = new XMLfeed();
using (var reader = new StringReader(doc.OuterXml))
{
xmlfeed = (XMLfeed)(serializer.Deserialize(reader));
}
foreach (var properties in XMLfeed?.values)
{
var feedObj= new FeedObj();
feedObj.Name = properties?.Name;
feedObj.Value = properties?.Value;
lstObjfeed.Add(feed);
}
return lstObjfeed.AsEnumerable();
Can you use Enumerable.Cast<TResult>(IEnumerable) from LINQ?
So something like lstObjfeed.AsEnumerable().Cast<T>().
I'll try to keep it short and thank you in advance.
I have created a Quiz. The Questions and answers, as well as the integer for the correct answer are done via get and set , into a constructor and then created in another class by just creating an object and giving it the parameters. it looks as follows:
allQuestions = new Question[3];
allQuestions[0] = new Question("Question1", "answer1", "answer2",
"answer3", "answer4", 2);
where 2 is the integer that says answer 2 is the correct one.
i do use this array in almost every function in my code.
Now i decided to get the questions from a XML Document instead of creating them here. I'm a C# beginner so i played around and could not get it working.
my self made xml looks as follows :
<questions>
<question>
<ID>1</ID>
<questiontext>Peter</questiontext>
<answer1>der</answer1>
<answer2>da</answer2>
<answer3>21</answer3>
<answer4>lol</answer4>
</question>
<question>
<ID>2</ID>
<questiontext>Paul</questiontext>
<antwort1>dasistid2</antwort1>
<antwort2>27</antwort2>
<antwort3>37</antwort3>
<antwort4>47</antwort4>
</question>
</questions>
so 2 basic nodes (?)
can you explain me how to read that one and store it into my array so i can still use my e.g. "allQuestions.Question1" ? watched a youtube tutorial, quite a lot, could still not get it working in this project.
using visual studio 2017 , WPF , C#
There are a lot of ways to do what you are trying to do. I'll give you a dirty example of a manual solution, as well as a more automatic one that should work. Note that the automatic version won't use your constructor so unless you have an empty constructor defined it may not work for you.
Manual processing using XML Linq:
public IList<Question> ParseXml(string xmlString)
{
var result = new List<Question>();
var xml = XElement.Parse(xmlString);
var questionNodes = xml.Elements("question");
//If there were no question nodes, return an empty collection
if (questionNodes == null)
return result;
foreach (var questionNode in questionNodes)
{
var idNode = questionNode.Element("ID");
var textNode = questionNode.Element("questiontext");
var ant1Node = questionNode.Element("antwort1");
var ant2Node = questionNode.Element("antwort2");
var ant3Node = questionNode.Element("antwort3");
var ant4Node = questionNode.Element("antwort4");
var question = new Question();
question.Id = Convert.ToInt32(idNode?.Value);
// note the '?.' syntax. This is a dirty way of avoiding NULL
// checks. If textNode is null, it returns null, otherwise it
// returns the textNode.Value property
question.Text = textNode?.Value;
question.AnswerOne = ant1Node?.Value;
question.AnswerTwo = ant2Node?.Value;
question.AnswerThree = ant3Node?.Value;
question.AnswerFour = ant4Node?.Value;
result.Add(question);
}
return result;
}
Next we have the XmlSerializer approach. This is not ideal in all situations, but provides an easy way to serialize objects into XML and to deserialize XML into objects.
public QuestionCollection autoparsexml(string xml)
{
//create the serializer
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(QuestionCollection));
//convert the string into a memory stream
MemoryStream memStream = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(xml));
//deserialize the stream into a c# object
QuestionCollection resultingMessage = (QuestionCollection)serializer.Deserialize(memStream);
}
public class QuestionCollection
{
public List<Question> Questions { get; set; }
}
The following code sample writes a simple object to a couchbase lite (version 2) database and reads all objects afterwards. This is what you can find in the official documentation here
This is quite a lot of manual typing since every property of every object must be transferred to the MutableObject.
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Couchbase.Lite.Support.NetDesktop.Activate();
const string DbName = "MyDb";
var db = new Database(DbName);
var item = new Item { Name = "test", Value = 5 };
// Serialization HERE
var doc = new MutableDocument();
doc.SetString("Name", item.Name);
doc.SetInt("Value", item.Value);
db.Save(doc);
using (var qry = QueryBuilder.Select(SelectResult.All())
.From(DataSource.Database(db)))
{
foreach (var result in qry.Execute())
{
var resultItem = new Item
{
// Deserialization HERE
Name = result[DbName].Dictionary.GetString("Name"),
Value = result[DbName].Dictionary.GetInt("Value")
};
Console.WriteLine(resultItem.Name);
}
}
Console.ReadKey();
}
class Item
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public int Value { get; set; }
}
}
From my research Couchbase lite uses JsonConvert internally, so there might be a way to simplify all that with the help of JsonConvert.
Anything like:
var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(item);
var doc = new MutableDocument(json); // No overload to provide raw JSON
or maybe
var data = JsonConvert.SerializeToDict(item); // JsonConvert does not provide this
var doc = new MutableDocument(data);
Is there or is this some kind of optimization and the preferred approach is by intend?
People ask about this quite often, but Couchbase Lite does not actually store JSON strings in the database. They are stored in a different format so this would not give the benefit that you think (the JSON would need to be reparsed and then broken down into the other format). I'd been pushing for a way to serialize classes directly instead of going through dictionary objects (which seems like the ultimate goal here) but our priority is on things that enterprise clients want and this doesn't seem to be one of them. Note that for it to make it in, it needs to be implemented in C# Java and Objective-C / Swift.
I don't know about JsonConvert but there seems to be a constructor that takes IDictionary<string, object> as argument. So I would try something like this (brain-compiled):
MutableDocument CreateDocument(object data)
{
if (data == null) return null;
var propertyValues = new Dictionary<string, object>();
foreach (var property in data.GetType().GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance))
{
propertyValues[property.Name] = property.GetValue(data);
}
return new MutableDocument(propertyValues);
}
See if this works.
Hi so am trying to parse this JSON line but i got some others that are like this in files thats why i want to automate this so i can remove the invalid lines to make the file a valid JSON for reading, The problem is that the JSON contains multiple JSON in 1 line
Example:
{"item":"value"}{"anotheritem":"value"}
Is there anyway to remove
{"anotheritem":"value"}
So it turns in to a valid JSON that is readable to start parsing the files
I tried doing using StreamReader cause there in a file i have multiple files that contain these invalid JSON
So i got it to be able to detect the Invalid JSON but for some reason i can't get it to read the JSON so i can use .remove to remove the invalid line
using (StreamReader r = new StreamReader(itemDir))
{
string json = r.ReadToEnd();
if (json.Contains("anotheritem"))
{
JObject NoGood = JObject.FromObject(json);
MessageBox.Show(NoGood.ToString());
}
}
The Error:
Object serialized to String. JObject instance expected.
Thank you all for your time and help.
If each object are side by side without space or any other character, you can convert your string to an json array.
string value = "{\"item\":\"value\"}{\"anotheritem\":\"value\"}";
string arrayValue = "[" + value.Replace("}{", "},{") + "]";
var array = JArray.Parse(arrayValue);
var goopArray = array.OfType<JObject>().Where(o => o.Property("anotheritem") == null);
Edit : see my second answer. More robust solution. More modern. And support dotnet core builtin json serializer.
Json.Net
Even better solution, Json.NET have a builtin feature for this exact scenario. See Read Multiple Fragments With JsonReader
The JsonTextReader have a property SupportMultipleContent that allow to read consecutive items when set to true
string value = "{\"item\":\"value\"}{\"anotheritem\":\"value\"}";
var reader = new JsonTextReader(new System.IO.StringReader(value));
reader.SupportMultipleContent = true;
var list = new List<JObject>();
while (reader.Read())
{
var item = JObject.Load(reader);
list.Add(item);
}
System.Text.Json
If you want to use System.Text.Json, it's also acheivable. They are no SupportMultipleContent property but Utf8JsonReader will do the job for you.
string value = "{\"item\":\"value\"}{\"anotheritem\":\"value\"}";
var bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(value).AsSpan();
var list = new List<JsonDocument>();
while (bytes.Length != 0)
{
var reader = new Utf8JsonReader(bytes);
var item = JsonDocument.ParseValue(ref reader);
list.Add(item);
bytes = bytes.Slice((int) reader.BytesConsumed);
}
I am trying to deserialize an instance of the following class from a JSON string using JavaScriptSerializer:
public class Filter
{
public HashSet<int> DataSources { get; set; }
}
Here is the code I am trying out:
Filter f = new Filter();
f.DataSources = new HashSet<int>(){1,2};
string json = (new JavaScriptSerializer()).Serialize(f);
var g= (new JavaScriptSerializer()).Deserialize<Filter>(json);
It errors out with the following message:
Object of type 'System.Collections.Generic.List1[System.Int32]'
cannot be converted to type
'System.Collections.Generic.HashSet1[System.Int32]'.
Apparently, the serializer is unable to distinguish between a list and set from JSON representation. What is the solution to this?
Note : I would prefer avoiding the use of external libraries due to constraints at work.
What is the solution to this?
Use Json.Net. This code works...
Filter f = new Filter();
f.DataSources = new HashSet<int>() { 1, 2 };
string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(f);
var g = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Filter>(json);
EDIT
DataContractJsonSerializer seems to work too...
DataContractJsonSerializer dcjs = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(Filter));
var g2 = dcjs.ReadObject(new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(json))) as Filter;
Here's my simple NOT so great solution, but it works.
var dataList = new JavaScriptSerializer().Deserialize<List<int>>(returnData);
var data = new HashSet<int>(dataList);